“It’s all about not doing the best plays but doing the ones that will sell the most tickets,” says Albee, the author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” among 30 other plays. The result, he says, is “usually junk.”

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" starring Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, opened in October to admiring reviews.

The Times' Charles McNulty said in a critic's notebook largely on Letts' performance as George, called the revival "less blowzy, less scenery-chomping Martha ... grounded in convincing marital detail. Directed by Pam MacKinnon (whose staging of "Clybourne Park" contributed to that play's success), this revival offers an intimate appraisal of a couple whose affection is detectable even when their belligerence threatens to go nuclear."

Albee, who has won the Pulitzer Prizes for drama three times, also talks about his childhood and a new work in the interview that will air on the show, which begins at 6 a.m. PST.